The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) Critic Reviews
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The Coens' plotting, with its suspense and reversals, is a source of amazement and delight.Read the full review
The Coens have used the noir idiom to fashion a haunting, beautifully made movie that refers to nothing outside itself and that disperses like a vapor as soon as it's over.Read the full review
You could say a lot about the very satisfying The Man Who Wasn't There, but what's for sure is that no one but the deadpan, dead-on Coen brothers could have turned it out.Read the full review
Steadily engrossing and devilishly funny, and, o brother, does it look sharp.Read the full review
When you're in the hands of the Coen brothers, you're in for sheer originality.Read the full review
Isn't content to stick to the genre conventions it sets up. Instead, it sprawls and mutates into one of the Coens' elaborate gizmoid yarns.Read the full review
The Coen brothers tread into James M. Cain territory with The Man Who Wasn't There, but with less tasty results than either Cain or the Coens themselves at their best.Read the full review
It's the latest and one of the best entries in a genre whose highest philosophical expression is the whiplash realization that the universe doesn't play fair.Read the full review
The film is marvelous fun on its own terms -- I laughed all the way through it.Read the full review
So assured and perceptive in its style, so loving, so intensely right, that if you can receive on that frequency, the film is like a voluptuous feast.Read the full review
